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Title: British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser
Identifier: britishbeejourna1900lond (find matches)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
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Subjects: Bees
Publisher: London
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Feb. 15, 1900. THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 65 foal-brood in my best ' W. B. C hive, and Mr. Sawyer stayed the whole evening so as to make sure it was properly dealt with by re- moving the bees from the diseased combs. 1 hived them myself after they had fasted forty- eight hours, and had to feed them, of courae, afterwards. From this same hive I took seventy-six lbs, of honey in section the follow- ing year. Regarding my personal experiences of bee-keeping which you ask for :—I am a beginner, and I may say had any one told me five years ago I should be able to handle bees I should have thought it a stretch of imagina- tion. Mr. Sawyer, the ' expert' already men- tioned, comes to examine my bees early in the spring. He is very keen after foul-brood, and (he entered it in his book as ' well-managed ') advised me to have mora shade. I follow the instructions in ' Cowan's Guide Book,' and always look forward to my Bee Journal and Record. I should very much like to have an expert's certificate myself, but I cannot as yet handle bees without gloves, so I should not pass. Perhaps some day I may be brave enough, but as bees will sting my hands I feel nervous, and as 1 am obliged to do all I can myself, and gloves give me more nerve, I do not think I am very wrong in wearing them. I took off a great deal of the honey myself, but I could not manage it all, so had to get Mr. Sawyer's help. He left me a little to take off even then as some sections were not quite filled. During
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MTSS E. J. fisher's APIARY, HEATH END, LOUDWATER, BUCKS. I feel if he passes my colonies as ' healthy ' they will do. I managed the work myself last summer, and as I did not want to increase my stocks too quickly, having only a limited space, I therefore watched for swarms, and when they came ofi' I opened the hive, cutting out queen-cells and returning the swarms after sun-down, I had ten swarms altogether, for the bees left the hives several times, but I managed at last to make them stay ' at home.' You will say I ought not to have had so many swarms, but I am afraid my bees need being shaded (I have just had some trees put in front of hives for shade), for it is terribly hot here in the summer, as we are at the top of a very high hill 300 ft. above the Thames. Mr. H. Atlee (in expert), who visited my apiary swarming time, when I found the bees would keep swarming, I opened hives, took out one of the end frames and put a frame of comb- foundation in the middle, and after that I found they did not swarm again. When the weather was very hot and racks of sections were on, I propped up the body boxes to allow a current of air. I also cut large baskets-full of nettles and placed them on roof of hives, in fact, did all I could to keep them cool. I make all my soft-candy and bee-food myself, and take care that the bees are comfortable for the winter. I always place two large cakes of candy on the top of frames, covering the latter with cushions filled with chaff, which I put over the quilts. I do not open hives more than T can hplp, as I am sure it upsets bees.

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